This awkward love triangle holds, barely, until one day Brynn abruptly walks out on them both, also abandoning her small children in the process. The narrator, Jessa, has only ever loved one woman, Brynn, but Brynn chose the more conventional life of marriage and babies offered by Jessa’s brother Milo (while continuing to have sex with Jessa on the sly). Instead, this is quite a dark story about a family of grieving, emotionally damaged people. Despite the neon bright cover that screams ‘Quirky! Funny!’, Mostly Dead Things is Mostly about Sad People, and I didn’t find much mirth in this debut (maybe a sardonic undercurrent, at best).
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